8 Video Games That Reward You For Not Playing Them

There are some people who take achievement hunting incredibly seriously; people who don't feel like they've truly “finished” a game until they've bagged every single achievement on offer. It's understandable – achievements reward a thorough playthrough, often congratulating you for picking up every item and besting the title on the hardest difficulty.

The Stanley Parable, however – an interactive fiction game released in 2013 for PC – treats achievements (and gameplay) fairly uniquely. The Stanley Parable is a game that demands players break the rules if they want to get much content out of it, and constantly breaks the fourth wall and engages in meta shenanigans.

One of the ways the game attempts to defy expectations is by offering an achievement for not playing. Not for a day, week, or even a month – for an entire five years. Titled “Go outside”, achievement hunters will be waiting a long, long time before they can truly one-hundred percent complete The Stanley Parable (or, you know, you can always just mess with your computer's internal clock. But surely that's cheating?).